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OFFICIAL FILM AUTHENTICATION BY CROWN GRADING
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Film cell NFV-000003298 Tap to enlarge
MOVIEThe Powerpuff Girls Movie Trailer
SCENECartoon Network - Logo Card
FILM FORMAT35mm
YEAR2002
CERTIFICATE IDNFV-000003298

FILM NOTES

The Powerpuff Girls Movie brought Craig McCracken's Townsville trio to theaters in 2002, expanding the Cartoon Network series into a feature-length origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Released through Warner Bros., the film arrived at a high point for the network's original animation push, and its trailer run helped cement the franchise's crossover appeal beyond Saturday morning audiences. For collectors of early 2000s animation ephemera, material tied to this release marks a notable moment when Cartoon Network properties were being positioned as genuine theatrical events.

This cell preserves a Cartoon Network logo card, the kind of bridging frame used in trailer reels to identify the network behind the production before the footage proper begins. Logo cards like this one are prized by collectors for their branding history value, standing as a snapshot of the network's visual identity at the time. As a 35mm trailer element rather than footage from the film itself, it represents the promotional apparatus surrounding the movie, the connective tissue that announced to audiences whose world they were about to enter.

Authentication Findings 8 checks

Consistent with a 35mm release print of The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer (2002).

Gauge
35mm, with four perforations per frame along both edges; the strip holds three frames, each filling the full frame height between the two perforation rows.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, rounded-rectangle holes, evenly spaced and cleanly punched, with no visible tears or missing perforations.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track of two bilateral tracks runs beside the picture, and a dashed Dolby-style stripe of dots and dashes runs just above it; no Dolby Digital blocks are visible between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Faint manufacturer text along the top edge reads backwards and is partly legible as "SAFETY"; no key numbers or other codes are legible in this capture.
Base & colour
Clear base with a light blue-cyan tint along the edges, and the dye image looks warm and saturated with no obvious fading.
Projection history
No scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the strip curls slightly on the panel, but nothing points to heavy projection.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one shot and show a Cartoon Network logo card, which fits a Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer on a Cartoon Network release.
Era check
Consistent with a 2002-era 35mm release print, since the optical track, the stripe running above it and the safety-base edge print all suit prints of that period.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000071073
Original Film Capture As received
The film strip as photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size